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Intriguing article at: http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/iSNblogs/iSpeak/archives/2005/04/pointers_in_cl.html or http://makeashorterlink.com/?W20F15FEA As much as I love the idea for myself, it makes me wonder if anyone out there has production systems that should not have this capability. Keeping HLL compilers off of systems can help reduce some risks; not many, but some. It also makes me curious about where IBM is headed. ILE CL with this ability, combined with UIM, SQL and various APIs, technically can do pretty much everything. If _Rwrite can send its return value back to a CL pointer variable for example, what's missing? And _Ropen can open display and printer files. Why provide such an advancement if... Oh, wait a minute... V5R4... quite a few physical systems out there are obsoleted by V5R4, aren't they? Come to think of it, mine will be. Naaah.... that couldn't be a reason. So, why such a huge capability leap if the article proves true? Tom Liotta -- Tom Liotta The PowerTech Group, Inc. 19426 68th Avenue South Kent, WA 98032 Phone 253-872-7788 x313 Fax 253-872-7904 http://www.powertech.com __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp
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